During the 1970's the increase in the proportion of faculty teaching part-time has been dramatic. The percentage of part-time faculty has risen from 40% in 1971 to 56% in 1977. The rationale for hiring part-time rather than full-time faculty is based on the premises that substantial sums of money can be saved and curriculum scheduling and…

TO DRAW ON THE UNTAPPED SUPPLY OF WOMEN, CERTIFIED FOR BUT NOT NOW TEACHING, WHO ARE AVAILABLE FOR PART-TIME WORK, A PARTNERSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM WAS BEGUN IN A PILOT STUDY. EACH OF NINE PAIRS OF TEACHERS SHARED ONE FULL-TIME POSITION. A 1-DAY ORIENTATION MEETING FOR TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS PRECEDED ASSIGNMENT TO THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASSROOM.…

A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED WHICH EXPLORE (1) THE EXTENT TO WHICH WOMEN PART-TIME TEACHERS WERE CURRENTLY EMPLOYED IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, (2) THE FIELDS AND GRADE GROUPS IN WHICH THESE TEACHERS WERE ASSIGNED, (3) THE NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS, INCLUDING CERTIFICATION, FOR PART-TIME ASSIGNMENTS, (4) THE OPINIONS OF SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS, AND (5) THE…

Two questionnaires were sent to all school boards and a sample of teachers in Ontario to assess how receptive boards and teachers are to job sharing as an alternative work pattern in schools affected by declining enrollment. The report gives the background of the concept of job sharing and an analysis of the benefits, work situations, and problems…

Arguing for recognition of the interdependent relationship between the university and the part-time faculty member, this paper offers suggestions as to how both can benefit from strategies that make the most of that interdependence. Specifically, it recommends that university administrators take a leadership role in establishing a system of…

The purpose of this study was to determine the practices used by community colleges in the State of Michigan to recruit, hire, and prepare part-time instructors in vocational-technical education, and to compare certain attitudes on six selected variables. Administrators of programs at twelve colleges were interviewed and the Minnesota Teacher…

The closing of a college is the topic of the third in a series of four transcripts of radio programs on college today. The dialogue includes: a press conference at Lone Mountain College, with a discussion of financial problems by the president and comments by Lone Mountain's student body president, college vice president, art department chairman,…

A survey of 123 part-time instructors at Johnson County Community College (JCCC) who taught during fall 1975 or were teaching during spring 1976 was conducted in order to systematically obtain information on this segment of the instructional staff. Data presented in this report are based on the responses of 86 part-time faculty comprising 70% of…

During a 16-day examination of recent innovations in Iranian education, two institutions were most closely examined: 1) The Army of Knowledge was created in 1962 as a crash program concentrating mainly on the elementary and secondary education of rural and village children where the population is dispersed, living standards low, and four out of…

The author takes issue with the National Institute of Education-sponsored report, "Involvement in Learning: Realizing the Potential of American Higher Education," saying that it belittles the importance of occupational education. He argues for the value of specialization to secure immediate employment versus the vaguer goals of liberal…

Three critics comment on M. Elizabeth Wallace's October l984 "College English" article, "The Richness of Language and the Poverty of Part-Timers: Impact and Invisibility," and Wallace responds. (EL)

Presents a high school English teacher's experience taking maternity leave and deciding to return to teaching on a part-time basis. (MM)

An alternative employment status for some types of part-time faculty, that of independent contractor, is described. The contractor status may be more congruent with what both parties actually believe their relationship to be. (MLW)

Describes the training program for part-time composition staff members at Saginaw Valley State College in Michigan. (FL)

Split contracting is one answer to the problems of budget and manpower for expanding women's athletic programs. (MM)